HeyJaredGrievances from the Grieving
Trying to understand grief and navigating the aftermath of loss
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we need to be more in awe of life… (opens the original)
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late one night, I made the mistake of opening Instagram. I might have shut the app shortly afterwards, but I couldn’t sleep till the wee hours of the morning - replaying in my head the images of wretched displays of anger, violence, impunity. barely a few minutes into the scrolling, I saw:an animation of man harming small animals - beating a baby sheep, throwing rocks at a duck mother with her ducklings near by, a mother fox attacked while playing with her pup. a video of a cattle farm somewhere
Becoming Jumblr Mummy (opens the original)
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When I started this newsletter in 2022, I had named it ‘Grievances from the Grieving’. I was in the throes of grief over losing my mother and the only way that pain was going to make sense was writing about it. My notebooks were filled with scribbles about death and grief. I wrote, scratched out, wrote again how my mother’s absence announced itself in my everyday life. Notes in my phone had a dedicated section for the Substack detailing my pain. Then I couldn’t keep track anymore. It was exhaust
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